Tisha Campbell Is in Remission from Sarcoidosis

Tisha Campbell is talking out about her sarcoidosis prognosis — and the way she’s maintained her well being in recent times.

Throughout a Wednesday, June 5, look on the mibo present podcast, hosted by former music government Shanti Das, the Martin alum, 55, revealed that she has been in remission from the inflammatory illness for years.

“I’ve been in remission for 4 years now,” she mentioned throughout the episode, which was taped in entrance of an viewers on the Johnson & Johnson headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J. “They cannot discover it on the base of my mind in any respect.”

Campbell had sarcoidosis for a few years. Again in 2011, she instructed PEOPLE that she had had the illness for practically 10 years at that time, however was managing it effectively by eating regimen and train.

The Little Store of Horrors actress additionally mentioned throughout the podcast interview that due to her illness, she feared getting sick as a result of “each chilly took me to the hospital.”

“I have not gotten sick, not one time. And I used to be so scared to get Covid as a result of I believed, ‘If I get Covid, I am gonna die,’ ” she revealed. “…Simply each sniffle, allergic reactions… It could construct up and I might get sick.”

“However I’ve not been sick ever since I received a divorce,” she joked, to a lot of laughter from host Das and and the viewers.

Campbell was married to Duane Martin, 58, for over 20 years and the pair share two youngsters collectively. She first introduced her cut up from Martin in February 2018, citing irreconcilable variations as the rationale for his or her breakup in her preliminary submitting. The pair finalized their divorce in December 2020.

“It’s been getting more durable and more durable for them for the final two years. But it surely simply received to the breaking level lately,” a supply instructed PEOPLE again in 2018. “It’s a kind of issues the place they’ve been speaking about it and combating it out and attempting to return to a aware uncoupling.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Campbell recalled the moments main as much as her unique prognosis with the inflammatory illness, as she was filming on the set of My Spouse and Children.

“I had this chilly — what I assumed was a chilly — for a really very long time. I had taken all the pieces over-the-counter, underneath the counter — behind the counter, not underneath the counter, [but] most likely did a few of that too,” she joked. “I simply couldn’t breathe.”

“It felt like an elephant was on my chest and I bear in mind being on the set of My Spouse and Children and asking you realize the [assistant directors] if they may name a physician to return to the set as a result of, you realize, at this level, I do know I’ve to have some kind of, like, pneumonia,” she recalled.

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“I used to be doing a scene and it is nonetheless on to at the present time,” she mentioned, remembering the precise scene she was filming whereas sick. “It is laborious for me to observe this scene. I needed to sing ‘Ease On Down the Highway.’ I might see after I completed the music — and you’ll see it too as a result of it is on tv — that I used to be panicked in my eyes. I can not breathe, however I used to be persevering with on with the scene.”

Quickly after, she recalled being instructed by medical doctors that she had stage one Sarcoidosis on each of her lungs and on the base of her mind, making her lymph nodes swell and making it laborious for her to breathe.

Based on the American Lung Affiliation, Sarcoidosis happens when granulomas — or tiny teams of infected tissue — type in numerous organs, particularly the lungs, after the immune system overreacts.

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The uncommon illness has 4 levels, and it impacts Black ladies extra on common. They’re 3 times extra more likely to be recognized with it than White ladies are, the ALA states.

For Campbell, progressing to stage 4 of the illness scared her — particularly after seeing it in her fellow TV star Bernie Mac’s life — and he or she fought it in each means doable, together with taking steroids, exercising her lungs by singing, and avoiding stress.

“I am simply telling y’all of the freaking reality, stress is a killer,” the Not One other Church Film star instructed the gang. “Yeah, it’s. And it is linked to your physique.”

“I’m right here to say that I’ve I’m so pleased with the place I’m in my psychological well being and my bodily well being now,” she completed. “As a result of I understood that they’re a mix. Whether or not you’ve got any kind of of dysfunction, it is essential to know you bought to do all the pieces that is proper.”